Care Managers: Working with the Aging Family

by Cress, Cathy Jo

• ISBN13: 9780763755850
• ISBN10: 0763755850
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-29
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Care Managers: Working with the Aging Family addresses the unmet needs of care managers working with aging clients as well as the client's entire family. With its in-depth focus on the aging family system, this book fills a gap for medical case managers and geriatric care managers giving them tools to better meet the treatment goals of aging clients and their families, as the older clients move through the continuum of care in institutional based settings or community based settings.Care Managers: Working With the Aging Family uniquely focuses on helping the entire family unit through the process of death and dying, helping midlife siblings to work together to render care to aging parents. It adds proven techniques to the care manager repertoire such as family meetings, forgiveness, technology, and care giver assessment. It offers multiple tools to do an effective care plan so that both the needs of the family and the older client are met.

Table of Contents

What is the Aging Family?
Care Managers Working with the Aging Family in the Medical System	p. 1
Care Managers-Navigating Families Through the Hospital to Home	p. 3
Care Managers Helping Aging Families Communicate with a Physician	p. 25
Care Managers Working with Aging Family Issues	p. 33
Working with Long-Distance Families: Tools the Care Manager Can Use	p. 35
Assessing the Caregiver	p. 91
Tools to Support Family Caregivers	p. 125
Family Meetings and the Aging Family	p. 157
Working with Couples	p. 181
Working with Adult Aging Siblings	p. 199
Dying, Grief, and Burial in the Aging Family	p. 229
Care Managers Working with Clinical Aging Family Issues	p. 265
Loss, Dependence, Filial Maturity, and Homeostasis in the Aging Family	p. 267
Entitlement in the Dysfunctional Family	p. 291
Forgiveness with the Aging Family	p. 311
Index	p. 333
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